Shore Acres



More photos of the marine terrace. More steeply dipping sedimentary rocks planed flat on top by waves 80,000 years ago and then subsequently covered by a thin layer of beach and dune deposits. Then gradually lifted 80-100' by plate tectonics and, much more recently, carved into seacliffs and sea stacks. 


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